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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Road Maps

Road Maps: Are We There Yet?

Using Road Maps as a Tool for Participatory Community Engagement

Every time a community engagement process is
launched, community members want to know and understand the purpose and
outcomes. More importantly is the fact that everyone involved deserves to know
this information at the very start.

To answer this question, our organization Communities
in Collaboration | Comunidades en Colaboración has developed what we call a
Road Map. This simple visual tool quickly illustrates the steps in any process
that we are proposing. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a 2-year process, or a
2-month process; any process can be boiled down to three or four major stages.

At the beginning of the process, our Road Maps
help people build shared expectations about what the steps, goals, and outcomes
will be. The Road Map helps us stay oriented toward those goals and outcomes.
And when we come to the end, it reminds us of the major steps we’ve taken. At
any point, it truly acts as a map – when we ask “where are we and how did we
get here?” the Road Map is there to guide us.

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A.M. Stanford University
A.M. Stanford University
B.A. University of Connecticut
B.S. University of Connecticut